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Cargando... The Tragedy of the Moon (1973 original; edición 1975)por Isaac Asimov (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Asimov's popular science writing is pure joy. His auctorial voice is one of utter charm. And he usually makes sense. These essays are as fine as any of them. And his proposal for a World Season Calendar, contained in the essay "The Week Excuse," is my kind of nutballery: entirely rational but without one chance in a million of having practical effect. (Yes, I've been thinking, recently, about the idiotic juxaposition of solar and lunar reckonings in our calendar, and have thought it best to get rid of the lunacy of the months, just as Asimov proposes.) Asimov was always clear. He enjoyed knowledge, and communicated his enthusiasm well. I've long suspected that the best way to teach science in, say, junior high, would be to have one period every day to the reading and discussion of Isaac Asimov essays. That would be the Education for Exposure science class, to be followed in subsequent years by Education to Mastery science classes . . . you know, physics, chemistry, biology, per usual. I would have enjoyed it, that's for sure! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Asimov elides personal anecdotes here and there – especially at the start of chapters – which I presume he thought were quirky and humorous, but instead come across as conceit. He enjoys name-dropping and preening to an irritating degree. This was written in a different age, so perhaps circumstances dictated this. ( )